Writer Carmen Maria Machado on focusing on what interests you – The Creative Independent
Writer Carmen Maria Machado discusses the complicated pleasures of writing and reading horror, the pros and cons of MFA programs, and writing about whatever you want
On focusing on what interests you Prelude Photo: Tom Storm Photography " href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/tci-assets/uploads/Machado,%20Carmen%20(Tom%20Storm%20Photography).JPG"> Carmen Maria Machado Writer Carmen Maria Machado ’s debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties , was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize, and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize. She is a fiction writer, critic, and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Guernica, Gulf Coast, NPR, and elsewhere. Her stories have been reprinted in Best American Scienc
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